Laying the Groundwork for a Greener Future.
Composting thrives when communities come together. Whether you're looking for a local composting hub, funding to start your own, or ways to bring composting into schools, we’re here to help.
Explore how you can get involved and be part of the movement turning food scraps into something wonderful.
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Community Compost Hubs
Community Composting Grant
Composting in Schools
Community Composting Hubs
Community composting hubs are places that accept anyone’s food scraps. In many cases, these hubs use the compost to nourish community gardens or distribute the compost for community needs.
When you use a community composting hub, you’re helping keep food scraps out of landfill. This helps ensure these valuable nutrients aren’t lost forever, and reduces production of methane in landfills.
We want to help more people with composting their food scraps, even if they don’t have the space or need for compost themselves.
So you want to start a composting hub?
Keen to start a community composting hub? Compost Collective have funds and resources available to support you.
We support the development and operations of community composting hubs, where businesses and households can bring food scraps and garden waste for composting, with the compost used for food gardens.
We broker connections between these groups to complete the regeneration cycle.
Find a local composting hub
Keen to find a place to drop off your food scraps instead of throwing them in the bin?
The easiest way to find a local composting hub is to join MakeSoil.
MakeSoil connects “Soil Makers” (composters) with nearby “Soil Supporters” (scrap contributors), helping Kiwis divert green scraps from landfills by pairing them with neighbors who compost, use worm farms, or keep chickens.
Our Partners
We’re proud to work alongside a great partner who help us extend the reach and impact of composting across Auckland.
Composters Network
Join the Tāmaki Makaurau Composters Network (TMCN) which sits as a regional arm of the Aotearoa Composters Network (ACN) and is a group of compost hubs, clubs and consultants who support communities, businesses, households and institutions to compost their food scraps and organics. Their mission is to empower change towards circular systems through active composting partnerships and resilience education throughout Aotearoa.
MakeSoil
The easiest way to find a local composting hub is to join MakeSoil.
MakeSoil connects “Soil Makers” (composters) with nearby “Soil Supporters” (scrap contributors), helping Kiwis divert green scraps from landfills by pairing them with neighbors who compost, use worm farms, or keep chickens.
Have a look at the MakeSoil map to see how close to home you might be able to drop off your compost!
COMPOSTING IN SCHOOLS
If you want to start composting in a school or early childhood facility, Compost Collective can help.
Our Pilot Hubs
We currently have three Community Composting Hubs running as pilots, to evaluate how best to meet our community needs
Garden
Supported by EcoMatters
Located on New Lynn’s Riverbank Road at the edge of the Whau River is a thriving garden dedicated to growing food and providing opportunities to learn and share skills.
Find us
8 Riverbank Road, New Lynn
Auckland 0600
Teaching Garden
Supported by EcoMatters.
At our EcoHub you can attend events and workshops, volunteer at our nursery or community garden, book group visits, rent a meeting space, browse or borrow from our eco library or relax and enjoy the surroundings.
Find us
1 Olympic Place, New Lynn
Auckland 0600
Compost Hub
Supported by Kaipātiki Project.
Here, we transform everyday kitchen scraps into valuable compost, enriching our gardens and reducing waste. Our hub is more than a compost site; it's a learning centre and a meeting place for all who aspire to live sustainably.
Find us
17 Lauderdale Road, Birkdale,
Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland 0626
